Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

positive

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. 7 more wisdom & wit from B. F. Skinner

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. 4 sayings from George Allen, Sr.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. 105 more thoughts from Albert Einstein

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction. 3 quotes from Georg Simmel

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now. 5 other views from Knute Rockne

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. 7 other wisdom & wit from James Anthony Froude

The most positive men are the most credulous. 43 more quotes from Alexander Pope

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. 6 more quotes from Mikhail Bakunin

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature. 2 thoughts from Keith Haring

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. 24 more thoughts from James A. Baldwin

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. 19 sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. 12 more sayings from Franz Kafka

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. 4 quotes from Emmet Fox

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that. 2 quotes from Luther Allison

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. 9 wisdom & wit from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. 2 quotes from Imre Lakatos

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. 12 quotes from William Cowper

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. 2 wisdom & wit from Imre Lakatos

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. 11 more quotes from Manuel Puig

I want always to be positive. 5 thoughts from Gianni Versace

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. 7 more quotes from Herbert Read

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. 2 more quotes from Steven Biko

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. 46 sayings from George Santayana

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. 3 quotes from Paul Klee

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. 2 more quotes from Hans Selye

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great. 2 wisdom & wit from William John Wills

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. 29 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. 6 quotes from Huey Newton

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. 3 views from Georg Brandes

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. 45 views from John Ruskin